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Preventing Permanent Damage to Tarmac Airport authorities should give greater major disaster. However, Rowsell priority to ensuring that they have suf emphasises the importance of looking at the subject of cleaning as it affects ficient stocks of safe cleaning materials for both day to day and emergency use. airports and runways in everyday situations. The call comes from one of the coun try's leading experts in the field of- Tyre marks and oil spillage from daily flights need removing regularly or chemical cleaning materials, John Row- sell of Sandbach-based Mayvil Chemi the result is damage to the runway and cals Ltd. the danger of slippery surfaces to aircraft. Rowsell and co-director Harrison "This is a problem that applies to were personally involved in the after math of the aircraft tragedy at Man private airfields, military airfields, large chester Airport last year when airport international airports, hardstanding adequate stocks of cleaning materials officials made an urgent plea for them and taxiways," explained Harrison. on site t o deal with both emergencies as to supply cleansing detergent to clean Mayvil have been talking to the Min more than 5,000 feet of affected istry of Defence, civil airport authori well as day to day runway requirements. runway. ties, the British Airport Authority and many other concerned bodies on the Cleaning agent was desperately Awareness subject of removing oil spills with hard needed to prevent burning aviation fuel surface de-greasers. eating into the top half of the runway "It's a case not only of availability but awareness. Nobody wants to capit and permanently damaging the tarmac, Manchester Airport in fact, used a alise on disaster and for that reason it is he said. Mayvil product called Turbo to resolve the problems on the runway following only now we are stating these views, The Mayvil executives were told that the airport accident. The Mayvil pro but tragic though it is, it has to be said unless cleaning solution was quickly duct did the jo b but Harrison was told that airport environments have fairly applied to the runway, the airport demanding cleaning needs," he said. that had his company not been in close would remain closed until the repairs could be carried out. proximity to the scene, thousands of Rowsall warned that airports that pounds worth of damage to the runway used solvents were risking damaging That is an example of how effective could have been caused. A far better the surface of their runways as this chemical cleaning materials can pre solution would have been to have had tended to weaken bitumen and damage vent damage to runways following a the strength of the surface. Some people used alkalis in their cleaning materials which are also unde sirable because aerolane skin is made of aluminium and alkali is incompatible with metal aluminium. "The fact is that with modern tech nological developments you can de- grease hard surfaces without the use of either solvents or strong alkalis. Mayvil has been leading the research once again in this area and it can now be done with neutral reagents, non-alkali reagents and products not containing solvents which was shown at Manches ter Airport. Harrison added: "This is not only a British airports problem, it is a Euro pean and international problem." Mayvil Chemicals Sandbach, Cheshire. Tel: 0270 761335. 6 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING — December 1986
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing
Published: Dec 1, 1986
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